Tag: Turkey

An Istanbul prosecutor pursued Turkish pop star Tarkan for alleged drug use in his deliberation released today.  The famous pop star, whose full name is Tarkan Tevetoğlu, was charged with ...

There is hardly any difference between a han and a caravanserai except for the first being urban and the latter being situated on the roads and highways between urban settlements. ...

Meric-Ipsala road closed to motor vehicle traffic due to heavy snowfall. Meric-Ipsala road in the Thrace region of Turkey has been shut down to motor vehicle traffic on Sunday due ...

Domestic support for Turkey’sEuropean Union membership is losing its momentum, as two thirds of Turks say they’ve lost their appetite for the EU bid and believeAnkara should abandon its pursuit of full ...

Sociologist Pınar Selek, who was controversially given a life sentence by a Turkish court, has said she is not considering claiming asylum in France, the country where she lives and ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has publicly criticized the long detention of army generals, saying it may be having an adverse effect on the fight against terrorism. “There are currently 400 ...

Through the gate opened in 1982 by Roger Garaudy, famous man of writers in Europe, Cousteau, the Captain of the Oceans, turned the course of his ship towards Islam, Bejart, ...

Western governments are institutionalizing Islamaphobia and using religious matters in foreign policy-making process, said Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), yesterday in London. “Islamaphobia is ...

First of all it should be emphasized that Turkey, through foreign policies recently followed, in particular for the past eight years, has inspired public opinion in the region. Therefore, the ...

Davutoglu met Massoud Barzani, leader of regional Kurdish administration. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Massoud Barzani, head of the regional Kurdish administration in the north of Iraq, in Davos ...